31978R1310

16 . 6 . 78 No L 158 / 21 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1310/ 78 of 15 June 1978 introducing a countervailing charge on peaches originating in Greece

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN tion (EEC) No 668/78 (5), the prices to be taken into COMMUNITIES, consideration must be recorded on the representative markets or, in certain circumstances, on other markets ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, for Greek peaches, the entry price calculated in this way has remained at least 0-50 unit of account below the reference price for two consecutive market Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No days ; whereas a countervailing charge should there­ 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization fore be introduced for these peaches ; of the market in fruit and vegetables ( } ), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 11 54/78 (2), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 27 (2) Whereas if the system is to operate normally the entry thereof, price should be calculated on the following basis :

Whereas Article 25 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that, if the entry price of a product — in the case of currencies which are maintained in imported from a third country remains at least 0-50 relation to each other at any given moment within unit of account below the reference price for two a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on consecutive market days, a countervailing charge must their effective parity, be introduced in respect of the exporting country concerned, save in exceptional circumstances ; whereas this charge is equal to the difference between the reference price and the arithmetic mean of the — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the last two entry prices available for that exporting arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each country ; of these currencies recorded for a given period in relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous subparagraph, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1232/78 of 8 June 1978 fixing the reference prices for peaches for the 1978 marketing year (3) fixed the reference price for products of Class I for the period 11 to 20 June 1978 at 43-33 units of account per 100 kilo­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : grams net ;

Whereas the entry price for a given exporting country Article 1 is equal to the lowest representative prices recorded for at least 30 % of the quantities from the exporting A countervailing charge of 3-59 units of account per country concerned which are marketed on all repre­ 100 kilograms net is applied to peaches (subheading sentative markets for which prices are available, less 08.07 B of the Common Customs Tariff) originating the duties and the charges indicated in Article 24 (3) in Greece . of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 ; whereas the meaning of representative price is defined in Article 24 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1 035/72 ;

Article 2 Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 21 18 /74 (4), as last amended by Regula­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 17 June (>) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 . 1978 . (2) OJ No L 144, 31 . 5 . 1978 , p. 5 . (3) OJ No L 153, 9 . 6. 1978 , p. 13 . (4) OJ No L 220 , 10 . 8 . 1974, p. 20 . (5) OJ No L 90 , 5 . 4 . 1978, p. 5 .

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 15 June 1978 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President